216 BISHOP TRBLAWNY. 



Next we come to that very popular refrain wHcli has been 

 sung, with some variations, — 



" Shall Trelawny die P — 



Then 20,000 Cornish men shall know the reason why!" 



These words had reference to the Bishop, concerning whom 

 much that is interesting is known. The particulars of his career 

 may he thus summarised. 



The Eight Eeverend Sir Jonathan Trelawny, D.D., 3rd 

 Baronet, held successively the Bishoprics of Bristol, Exeter, and 

 "Winchester — becoming, by virtue of the last-named appointment, 

 Prelate of the Order of the Garter. He was born at Trelawne, 

 24 March, 1650, and married in 1684, at Egg-Buckland, 

 Eebecca Hele, of Bascombe, Devon. 



Besides the portraits of himself and of his wife and other 

 relatives at Trelawne, there is a painting of him, by Kneller, in 

 the Hall of Christ Church, Oxford, — so Messrs. Boase & Courtney 

 state, — his arms,'''" they tell us, are engraven on the south 

 quarter of Tom Grateway, and, they add, he gave to the same 

 College the statuef of Cardinal Wolsey, which is over the gate- 

 way leading to the Hall. Bishop Trelawny rebuilt the Chapel 

 of Trelawne. It has recently been again re-constructed, but 

 carved figures of angels which were in the older fabric remain. 

 At different times he held a great many ecclesiastical appoint- 

 ments, and whilst his lordship presided over the See of Exeter, 

 he was Dean of Burian, in Cornwall. Several documents signed 

 by him, and officially sealed, are now preserved in the registry 

 at Bodmin. He died at the Palace, Chelsea, 19th July, 1721, 

 and was buried on the 10th of August, in Pelynt Church, 

 Cornwall, where a pastoral staff, or episcopal crook of gilded 

 wood is still to be seen, and where, also, his name appears on 

 the altar vessels and on one of the bells. 



The baronetcy passed to his eldest son. His second son 

 became Governor of Jamaica. The present baronet is descended 

 from the Bishop's brother. 



* The Arms borne by the Trelawny family are given in two forms, viz : 

 '-'Argent a chevron sable," and "Argent a chevron sable between three oak leaves 

 proper." With these, many other Arms have appeared, impaled and quartered. 

 The Trelawny crest is "A Wolf passant proper." 



f Its Latin inscription is quoted in the " History of Cornwall," (Lake, Truro), 

 Vol. IV, p. 38. 



